hear me out: usage-based taxes
1) Citzens and companies pay proportionate to their your use of government services and facilities. automagically attributed with ai (🪄)
2) the more people use a service, the more funding that gov agency receives.
3) The cost to run and improve the agency is split equally among all verified users of that gov facility.
e.g.
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#all defense, grid, trains, parks, public health...
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#uber overuse of roads
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4) No elections for local gov, they just hire the best people for the job from the free market. High-paying prestigious jobs.
5) All citizens sit on on the board of all gov facilities that they're using, where they vote on granular budget allocation, new hires, attribution of gov.facility use, etc.
6) Fed gov keeps all national functions. Same election process. Reviews performance of local gov by law-binding KPIs and OKRs. can hire and fire with executive authority in special scenarios. Can set tax-to-use attribution model.
Rewards:
- Gov innovation and consolidation of functions through competition over a scarce max amount of taxes.
- Tax avoidance only possible through limiting their use of public property
- Crowdsourcing local public works projects by wealthy citizens and companies to.
- Each political partys only advocate for their thesis on optimal tax attribution logic. Hard mathematical models instead of political bs. Performance discussed publicly.
- Infrastructure is maintained obsessively to avoid outages which could result in a direct drop in tax revenue.
Disincentivizes:
- Waste
- Fraud
- Abuse